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HAP’s 2025 Workforce Summit focuses on the most vital resource in health care. Attendees will explore opportunities to invest in, realign, and refocus our efforts to support and strengthen the health care workforce of today and tomorrow. The event showcases innovative approaches to develop new career pathways, attract and retain talent, and train the next generation of providers.

The second day of HAP’s annual Leadership Summit provided a full slate of dynamic speakers focusing on issues on the minds of hospital leaders.   

Pennsylvania’s hospitals and health systems face significant and persistent challenges that jeopardize communities’ access to health care, HAP and hospital leaders told a state Senate panel today.

Health care workers, including nurses, physicians, and support staff, face increasing risks of workplace violence that impact both their safety and patient care. Such incidents have intensified calls for enhanced safety measures and legislative action.

Pennsylvania’s hospitals and health systems are developing the health care workforce to serve their communities today and meet a growing need as the commonwealth ages. But they continue to navigate workforce shortages that threaten Pennsylvanians’ access to care.

The state of the nursing workforce in the U.S. shows some signs of recovery, although long term projections are shaky, according to a recently released report by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)

Workplace violence is a growing cause for concern in health care—and hospitals are leading efforts to prevent it.

Hospital emergency departments are on an unsustainable path and need support, according to a new report released today.

Pennsylvania continues to face persistent, health care workforce shortages that strain patients’ access to care, a new survey of the state’s hospitals and nursing homes found. The survey—conducted November 2024 through January 2025 by The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP), LeadingAge PA, and Pennsylvania Health Care Association (PHCA)—demonstrates the ways patients and residents feel the effects of workforce shortages throughout the continuum of care.

HAP’s Nurse Ambassadors arrived at the state Capitol today with a shared passion for their communities and a central theme for their advocacy: a strong commonwealth starts with strong hospitals.